I have just signed an (employee) contract to work for Bake Hughes in The Netherlands. Are there any implications I should think about? I am still in a position to pull back, as I have not yet ended my current contract.
Are you in oilfield service delivery or Baker's product development/support side? If the former, your skills will be trivially transportable to Halliburton and the industry generally. If the latter, Baker still have a lot of cool stuff that I imagine Halliburton would keep running for quite a few years yet - just look at all the other acquisitions made in the industry, Eg. when Schlumberger bought Pathfinder, they have kept the Pathfinder business running for years even though it directly competed with their own (admittedly they seemed to pivot Pathfinder at the budget end of things, at least in Australia - but still).
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I have just signed an (employee) contract to work for Bake Hughes in The Netherlands. Are there any implications I should think about? I am still in a position to pull back, as I have not yet ended my current contract.
Are you in oilfield service delivery or Baker's product development/support side? If the former, your skills will be trivially transportable to Halliburton and the industry generally. If the latter, Baker still have a lot of cool stuff that I imagine Halliburton would keep running for quite a few years yet - just look at all the other acquisitions made in the industry, Eg. when Schlumberger bought Pathfinder, they have kept the Pathfinder business running for years even though it directly competed with their own (admittedly they seemed to pivot Pathfinder at the budget end of things, at least in Australia - but still).